Humphries Eases Into Grand Slam Semi-finals

Luke Humphries saw disconnected a spirited fightback from Michael Smith arsenic he booked his spot successful nan semi-finals of nan Grand Slam of Darts pinch a 16-8 victory.

World number 1 Humphries raced into a 4-0 lead successful nan champion of 31-leg lucifer but Smith battled backmost to level nan lucifer astatine 7-7 all.

However, Humphries won 9 of nan adjacent 10 legs arsenic nan 30-year-old ruthlessly closed retired nan title against his chap Englishman.

Humphries, nan 2023 Grand Slam champion, averaged an awesome 104.98 pinch a checkout percent of 44.4%

He will look Gerwyn Price successful nan past 4 aft nan Welshman chalked up a 16-9 triumph complete England's Ricky Evans.

The remaining 2 quarter-finals astatine nan WV Active Aldersley centre successful Wolverhampton return spot connected Saturday.

World champion Luke Littler faces Northern Ireland's Josh Rock while Germany's Lukas Wenig takes connected Dutchman Danny Noppert.